Submitted by admin on Wed, 2008-05-28 02:44
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A first beta of KDE 4.1 has been released. Major changes:
- An improved Plasma shell, featuring multiple and resizeable panels, a re-optimised Kickoff menu with a new look, and improved Run Command dialog
- Newly ported Kontact, with new components including KJots (note-taking) and KTimeTracker
- WebKit support in Plasma, allowing use of Mac dashboard widgets
- Qt 4.4 support, which includes widgets on canvasses and GStreamer, DirectShow 9 and QuickTime support in Phonon
- New lightweight media player, Dragon Player
- New printer applet
- Tabs in Dolphin
- Full-screen image browsing in Gwenview
- Zeroconf networking in a number of utilities and games
Source downloads available here; binaries are available for some systems. This is not a production release; it is intended for development purposes only.